Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Sanath Kumar Naibhi is a creative personality striving to live life to the fullest and inspire creatives through creating and sharing artworks in various forms – music videos, blogs, etc
The Flower of Fulfilment is the first book by him.
Sanath Kumar Naibhi is a Carnatic Classical musician, violin being his instrument of expertise. He has completed his Proffeciancy Level Music Exam ( Vidwat ) in distinction and has performed over 400 concerts mainly including accompanying a variety of skilled musicians, various solos, and duet violin with his master Vidwan Yashasvi Subbarao. He is now a violin master to a dozen of students, teaching both online and offline.
He creates a very unique style of music videos on his YouTube channel titled his name, blending his proficiency in Carnatic music with his passion and skill in video lighting, cinematography, and video editing. And his website – www.sanathkumarnaibhi.com is ideally the hub for all the forms of the creative outlet of all which he loves to express.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The idea of writing this book started as a random thought of me wanting to answer to myself the question “Where do you see yourself in another 5 years?”, which apparently is one of the most popular questions people ask. To be precise the idea originated on my sister’s birthday as a disguise of a thought “make a plan for my life”, which I named later “The Awareness Project” and even later, it transformed into the book you’re holding now. And I wish I could personally show you all those its-and-bits of writing that I’ve written in my journal that gives you an idea of the whole journey of this book. It’s very fascinating! Especially the beginning. [I’ve included a few images of those pages from my journal ]
By the way, I still think that question “Where do you see yourself in 5 years” is absurd, I still don’t like it. Instead of a destination, I set myself to figure out paths that are ideal for a life of fulfillment, a life of balance.
The awareness project was just writing down aspects of life, philosophies of life in the books that I’ve read and reflections that I gained through various kinds of experiences life threw at me and realizations I’ve been blessed with. Connecting the dots and trying to get a clearer picture of life, which I’ve been trying to do for a few years now.
Then I started writing and writing and writing all to realize this would have been so much helpful to my past self, to my younger self. My diary started filling, with knowledge, reflections, and wisdom. That’s when I decided I had to spread awareness and share the same in the form of this book. So this basically, is my perspective on life. And I’ve read a variety of self-help, personal development, psychology, and philosophy books which are great and filled with powerful wisdom that if you try to practice it, your life gets better. But one thing I found hard was to comprehend and practice all these books together. Like how scientists are trying to find and are working on a unified theory that can hold the equations of Newtonian physics as well as quantum mechanics, etc, I wanted to connect various Life philosophies, self-help, and concepts related to personal development, and form mental models of my own. And I think that’s what this book will be doing, to connect all the dots. To connect all the philosophies and best practices from all the books I loved and the practices I’ve received benefits from.
This book isn’t about one thing because it’s about life, and life isn’t about mastering one skill or about one thing, it’s about balance!
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t think this is unusual. When I wrote this book, I made it a habit that I wrote every day at the same time sitting in the same place most of the time.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Robin Sharma has influenced me the most. My Book is also styled similar to Robin Sharma’s Monk who sold his Ferrari. But of course, a lot of other books have influenced my writing. Some of them are: Mastery by Rober Greene
The War Of Art by Steven Pressfield
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Brain Rules by John Medina
FLOW by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Deep Work by Cal Newport
Breathe by James Nestor
Why We Sleep by Mathew Walker
The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
The Almanac Of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
What are you working on now?
I’m just working on getting all the parts of publishing and marketing my book done well. Then I plan to write my second book which I still have no idea of!
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m still unsure, I’m just entering this field. I hope Awesome Gang does best in promoting my book. IDK.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Practice! That’s the only thing you can rely on! Write every day, collect your insights and reflections, read more books, and again, write more!
What are you reading now?
Linchpin by Seth Godin
What’s next for you as a writer?
I write a blog every week, so for now, I’ll just do that.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
The Bhagavadgeetha
The Upanishads
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